Following behind Stanford University was Williams College, Princeton University and Harvard University.

“No one could have imagined that in the following century–plus this startup school would emerge as the nation’s preeminent university, which in large part created today’s Silicon Valley, the cult of entrepreneurship and a global boom of digital disruption,” stated the Forbes article.

In the list of the Top 25 Colleges for 2016 released by Forbes on Monday, the high ranking schools all prove to have the highest retention rates in the country with minimal student debt.